''After Cezanne'' is a large irregular shaped obtuse painting begun in 1999 and completed in 2000 by the British artist
Lucian Freud. The top left section of this painting has been 'grafted' on to the main section below, and closer inspection reveals a horizontal line where these two sections were joined.
The painting is one in a select group of canvases where Freud engages in a dialogue with past masters, this work being a variation on a theme of the work ''
L'Après-midi à Naples'' (; circa 1875) by the French
Post-Impressionist
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
painter
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...
.
In 2001 the work was purchased by the
National Gallery of Australia in
Canberra
Canberra ( )
is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
, which also owns Cézanne's ''L'Après-midi à Naples'', for $7.4 million.
References
2000 paintings
Paintings by Lucian Freud
Collections of the National Gallery of Australia
{{21C-painting-stub